TYROL

(1) N. Tyrol,"prov.; Austria 47° 15’ N., 11° 25’ H.), N. of Italy and. of Switzerland. (2) 8. Tyrol ceded to Italy under Treaty of St. Germain | (1919). Noted for beauty of its scenery; ps traverse the country; dolomites rise in S., but culminating point is the famous pa . The Inn, the Adige, and the Drave have part of their courses in Tyrol. Silkworms reared; dairy produce, fruit, and wine exported; forests cover 46 per cent. of surface; salt, zinc, lead, and sulphur mined; silks, iron goods, cottons, linens, leather, gla , and paper manufactured; singing birds bred for export, particularly the canary in the valley of the Inn. Pop. almost entirely R.C., and German speaking in N. and center; chief tn. Innsbruck. Tyrol was part of Rhetia, and Noricum in Roman times: subsequently a part of Bavaria. In 1363 the Habsburgs came into po e ion, In 1805 Napoleon granted it to Bavaria, and in 1809 parts were ceded to France, though the Tyrolese under Andreas Hofer made a stubborn resistance, 1814 Tyrol was restored to by the Treaty of Paris. N. Tyrol, area, 4,786 sq. m.; pop. 306,150. 8. Tyrol, W.), inland county, Ulster, Ireland; surface mostly hilly, rising into mountains in N. and S.; fertile and well cultivated in low-lying districts; watered by branches of Foyle and Blackwater; chief pursuits, agriculture and cat tile rearing; linens and coarse wWwoolens manufactured. Pop. 145,000. Capital Omagh.